all that work when someone asks for a "configuration variable" from the
Makefile.  Details:
  - added 'get_config_vars()': responsible for calling one of the
    '_init_*()' functions to figure things out for this platform,
    and to provide an interface to the resulting dictionary
  - added 'get_config_var()' as a simple interface to the dictionary
    loaded by 'get_config_vars()'
  - changed the '_init_*()' functions so they load the global dictionary
    '_config_vars', rather than spewing their findings all over
    the module namespace
  - don't delete the '_init_*()' functions when done importing
  - adjusted 'customize_compiler()' to the new regime

comments are stripped and lines are joined according to the backslash
convention.

directory.  This avoids acretion of HTML from previous runs which may
have a new name; this would have avoided a lot of the packaging problems
related to changing labels from the old distutils documentation.

secure.  Suggested by Erno Kuusela <erno@iki.fi>.

Changed the stackless note.

Added a note about getting CarbonLib as a way to get a new Appearance/NavServices. Added Luc Lefebvre to the thanks-list.

Fixes that should make it possible to run Python on machines without NavServices installed. Also weak-linked OT libraries so Python can run with extensions disabled.

Minor fix in documentation of code module.
(Clarifies output destination for default implementation of the write()
method.)

ignoring them; e.g. Zope sometimes returns 13497L

is gone.

Make a module reference into a hyperlink.

This partially addresses SourceForge bug #114318.

Fix the release number -- this is supposed to be the *Python* release,
not the documentation release!  The later is given by the combination of
the Python release number and the date.  Add a comment so I can keep it
straight.

This partially addresses SourceForge bug #114318.

do_cmd_setshortversion():  Implementation for new markup.

convert_args():  New helper function.

do_cmd_optional():  Modified to understand when it is called from within
                    a convert_args() invocation.

do_env_funcdesc(),
do_env_funcdescni(),
do_cmd_funcline(),
do_cmd_funclineni(),
handle_classlike_descriptor(),
do_env_methoddesc(),
do_end_methoddescni(),
do_cmd_methodline(),
do_cmd_methodlineni():  Modified to use helper convert_args().

The convert_args() helper and related changes fix the generation of HTML
for the \optional markup, so that bogus </var>...<var> is not generated.
This closes SourceForge bug #113800.

\setshortversion:  New markup to help deal with Python having a "real"
                   version number and an abbreviated version number
                   used to create pathnames to the library installation.

This partially addresses SourceForge bug #114318.

This partially addresses SourceForge bug #114318.

%-formatting of strings.

character according to RFC 2396. Add some text to quote doc string
that explains the quoting rules better.

This closes SF Bug #114427.

Add _fast_quote operation that uses a dictionary instead of a list
when the standard set of safe characters is used.

This allows dbmmodule.c to use either without having to add additional
options to the Modules/Setup file or make source changes.

(At least some Linux systems use gdbm to emulate ndbm, but only install
the ndbm.h header as /usr/include/gdbm/ndbm.h.)

mailbox.py (from the CVS tree) doesn't work with qmail Maildirs:
Filenames are completed when the directories are scanned, and
the directory name is prepended again in the next() method.

Another suggestion: Change the print statement in the _test()
driver to show two more date characters (probably the length
has increased due to the recent Y2K hype ;). Now it shows the
complete date, including the seconds -- at least for me. (I've
also made the sender field left justified, in case it is ever
shorter than the field width).

Added _winreg to the non-required modules.

compilation).

does the right thing).

<prefix>:Lib:site-packages.

setup script.  Also added a comment about how it *should* work on Mac OS.

Reduces lines of code and compiled object size.